Failcamp is a friendly unconference where people get-together to share and learn from failures. It takes place on 16th November,2008 at Chennai.

We all make mistakes and learn from it to become a better person. Won't it be great to learn from other's mistakes so that we don't make the same ones!

The focus is really not about the failure. It's about why we failed and what lessons we learnt from it. Let's not be ashamed about failing. Let's celebrate failure. Let's look straight into its eyes.

Date

Sunday, 16th November, 2008

Venue

Tenth Planet Technologies Pvt., Ltd.,

#807, P.T.Lee Building, 6th Floor, Anna Salai, (Opposite LIC building)

Chennai-600 002

A few pictures of the venue are here.

Directions:

- If you are travelling from south of chennai, take the service lane after crossing the spencers signal

- If you are travelling from north of chennai, after crossing LIC make a U turn in spencers signal and get on to the service lane

- Tenth Planet is located exactly opposite to LIC Building (Just behind the bus terminus)

- Next to Annalakshmi Hotel

Just in case if you have any trouble you could reach me 9840364141

If you are travelling by Bus from south get down in LIC Bus Terminus and just walk in

If you are travelling by Bus from North get down in LIC Bus Terminus and walk south towards the subway and

get to the otherside and walk North.

Parking

TWO WHEELERS

- Since being a Sunday this place can hold atleast 100+ two Wheelers so i don't see any problems

with this

FOUR WHEELERS

- This place can hold upto 15 Cars

- Other (Paid per hour) Parking places are Higgin Bothams, Nirmala Dakshin

Participants

To be a participant, you must be prepared to share your failure and lessons learnt. It would also be great if you can help out with organizing the event. We are restricting the count to 75 participants. So, sign up early.

(The password is c4mp)

1. Rajesh Sukumaran, CoFounder @ Pellucid Networks, Investor @Mercatus Capital, rajesh(at)mercatus-capital.com, http://twitter.com/Raajesh
2. Kiruba Shankar, Entrepreneur, Founder, Business Blogging, Kiruba(@)Kiruba.com, 98415 97744, http://www.kiruba.com , http://www.twitter.com/kiruba
3. Kris Nair, Entrepreneur / Angel, Founder - Opdrage Venture Partners, http://krisnair.tumblr.com
4. Avinash Subramaniam
5. Nikhil Velpanur, Entrepreneur, LetsHead.to , nikhil.velpanur(@)gmail.com
6. G R Hari, Lawyer, grhari(@)gmail.com, 91766 24466
7. Praveen Sherman, Director & Chief Trainer, OnlySuccess Learning Technologies.
8. Shekhar Sahu, Entrepreneur, Co-Founder & CTO, HealthcareMagic, http://healthcaremagic.com , shekhar@healthcaremagic.com
9. Shrinidhi Hande, Blogger, http://www.enidhi.net
10. Ravishankar, Entrepreneur,http://biotechnologist2020.com biotechnologist20@gmail.com,9840526816
11. Srinivasan, Blogging, srinieth@gmail.com, http://srini.me , 9944945559
12. Ankit Jindal, Entrepreneur, ankit(at)tosscard.com, http://tosscard.com , 9602214120(tentative participation)
13. Mayank Kamthan, Entreprenuer, mayank(at)tosscard.com, http://tosscard.com , 9950675982 (tentative participation)
14. Deepak Pandian,Blogger,peerlessdeepaks@gmail.com http://www.peerlessdeepak.wordpress.com
15. Arun balaji M V, thin client specialist www.resonet.in college dropout doing web business
16. Nivas K,nivaskapil@gmail.com
17. Suresh Sambandam, suresh@orangescape.com
18. K.Kaviraj , kaviraj.it(at)gmail.com
19. Kumaran, CEO & Founder, Tenth Planet Technologies
20. Sriran Srinivas , sriram.3k(at)gmail.com
21. Harish , ssvharish(at)gmail.com
22. Mahesh Subramanium , mahesh.subbu87(at)gmail.com
23. Thiyagarajan, Thiyagarajan(dot)vp(at)gmail.com
24. Selvakumar, Software Professional, selva@selvaonline.com
25. Diwakar, moorthy(dot)diwakar(at)chipkidz(dot)com
26. Arul, arul(at)tenthplanet(dot)in
27. Deepa, deepa(at)tenthplanet(dot)in
28. Sukumar S, YesSukumar(at)GMail dot com 09841030506 Speaker
29. Santhosh Kumar S, mailtosano(at)gmail.com
30. Raja K, rajazone(at)gmail.com
31. Sathish J 16.sathish(at)gmail.com
32. Swaminathan Moorthy swami(at)mrmwrites.com
33. Vijay Krishnan S, asinian2007@gmail.com
34. Santosh - santosh(at)oneindia.biz
35. Rajesh - rajesh(@)rajeshworld.com
36. Pradeep - mailme@pradeepg.com
37. Karthick Prabu, Business Analyst, kprabu(at)kprabu.com, www.kprabu.com
38. Deepak Gupta, Partner, iambramha@gmail.com
39. Srinivasan K, Prime Point Foundation, prpoint@gmail.com, http://www.prpoint.com/
40. Aswin Anand, Techy ( http://www.aswinanand.com ), aswin(dot)net(at)gmail.com
41. Vasupradha - vasupreda(at)gmail.com
42. Sudar - http://SudarMuthu.com/blog , sudar@sudarmuthu.com, http://twitter.com/sudarmuthu , http://friendfeed.com/sudar
43. Rajeshwaran, Software Engineer, tuxrajesh@gmail.com
44. Jaskirat Singh, Programmer analyst (Cognizant), jass2cool@gmail.com
45. Ashwin Ramesh, Entrepreneur, CEO, http://organicapex.com/ , ashwin(at)organicapex(.)com
46. Sathish Nagarajan, Entrepreneur, CEO & Founder, SNR Technologies, sathish(at)snr-technologies.com.
47. Rajamanohar, Entrepreneur, Founder and Chief Strategist at Hexolabs, mano(@)hexolabs.com, 99359 44883
48. Vinodh Nandakumar, Entrepreneur, Product Strategy for startups, Startup Enthusiast vinodhn(at)msndotcom, http://techcruising.wordpress.com , http://twitter.com/vinodhn
49. Sujani Kiruba, Cofounder, F5ive Technologies, sujani@f5ive.com
50. Himanshu Sheth, himanshu.sheth@gmail.com, http://thoughtsprevail.blogspot.com/ , http://twitter.com/hjsblogger/ , http://www.friendfeed.com/hjsblogger/
51. Jagadishkumar G, Blogger http://blog.jaggyscorner.com , jagadish(at)jagadish(dot)net
52. Deepak NV nvdeepak1@gmail.com
53. Saravanakumar V Blogger vsaran.kumar@gmail.com http://twitter.com/vsaran http://www.simba.in/
54. Yuvi http://blog.Yuvisense.net, http://friendfeed.com/yuvipanda , http://twitter.com/yuvipanda
55. Srinivasan - cnu <at} blogial {dot> com - http://blogial.com , http://twitter.com/cnu , http://friendfeed.com/cnus8n
56. Arvind K, Human Being, karvindkumar@gmail.com
57. Krishna Kummar, Techy, krishnakummar@gmail.com
58. Arvind.P, Creative Writer, arvind.p@pgcinfotech.com
59. Sudhish Kamath, Senior Journalist, The Hindu, and Movie Director.
60. Deepan, Student, Anna University, catchmedeepan@gmail.com
61. Subramanyan Swaminatahan, Easwari Engg college, subraece@gmail.com
62. Shivakumar Narayanan, Opdrage Venture Partners - www.mindinspirations.com , shijay@gmail.com
63. Thomas Babu J, Web Developer, USA Web Solutions P Ltd, Chennai. ( http://twitter.com/Devtom )

Please add your name, your designation and email here. Just click this link http://barcamp.org/failcamp?edit=1 . The password is c4mp .

Who Would You Like to Hear?

Please recommend a person who you are thoroughly impressed with and whom you really want to hear him/her speak. We will send out a special invite and do our best to get them to the event. Thanks.

1. Sekar Vembu, Founder & CEO, Vembu Technologies
2. Bobby Menon, Author.
3. Jyothi Menon, Author, Sr.VP, Scope International.
4. Ramaraj, VC, Sequoia Capital, CoFounder, Sify Ltd.
5. Narayana murthy , chairman , founder, Infosys ,ltd
6. B. Suresh Kamath, Founder and MD, Laser Soft Infosystems Ltd (kamath@lasersoft.co.in)
7. Arumugapandian, sixfacepandian(@)gmail.com, http://www.sixfaces.blogspot.com

Things To Do. Can You Help?

Please add any other tasks that needs to be done. If you want to pick up a task (we love you!), please put your name and phone number next to it.

1. Design a Logo. - Bipin. (the one you currently see)
2. Design a poster. - Rajeshwaran, 9962525949 Uploaded @ http://barcamp.org/f/FailCamp_1.jpg. Baranidharan - 9840425316
3. Tidy up this wiki. - Sudar, 9840867986
4. We need a nice tag line.
5. Find venue and freeze the date
6. Find sponsors for food and snacks.
7. Design a backdrop
8. Buy Failcamp.in domain name
9. Get server space for website
10. Prepare a press release - Shrinidhi and PRpoint Srinivasan
11. Design small web buttons for blogs that says 'I'm speaking at FailCamp' and 'I'm attending FailCamp'
12. Design a laptop sticker (on second though, just the logo itself should do.)
13. Get Wifi at venue
14. Send mailers to Barcamp, OCC, Proto.in and other mailing lists.
15. Add the event to Barcamp.org main page schedule
16. Hire caterer. Fix menu.
17. Please bring your digital cameras. It will be good to take lots of snaps.
18. Add directions to the venue.
19. Add info about parking
20. Add sponsorship details.
21. Buy colourful post-it notes. - Sujith
22. Arrange for a projector (can we request this from 10th planet?)

If there are any more tasks to be done, add them here.

Contact

For any clarification or help, do not hesitate to contact Kiruba Shankar at 98415 97744 or email him at Kiruba{@}Kiruba.com.

Mailing List

Join the mailing list to keep up to date with latest news about the event. Also a great way to interact with other members and help contribute to this community event.

What Are People Saying About Failcamp?

People's reactions from blogphere, twitter world and the Press. If you have written about Failcamp, please add the link here.

Gauravonomics: Love @kiruba's idea of FailCamp http://barcamp.org/failcamp -- an unconference where people share & learn from failures. Wow!

alexknowshtml: excited to see a failcamp in india! @amyhoy and i launched this over the summer andit was a GREAT event: http://failcamp.org/

nivask: @praveensherman going to be a part of failcamp!..thats freaking awesome...then am IN....surely will get awesome things outta it..

ShouryaSarcar: nice work with failcamp

krishnair: I had many failures and i learned a lot and never repeated ! FailCamp http://barcamp.org/failcamp .

rohandighe: RT idea of FailCamp http://barcamp.org/failcamp -- an unconference where people share & learn from failures. Wow!

aryaditya: Retweeting idea of FailCamp http://barcamp.org/failcamp -- an unconference where people share & learn from failures ..kewl stuff

Arby_K: @sidin There is a FailCamp coming up in Nov. Goldie Behl can be the chief guest :)

meetmurli: Topic for next FailCamp... Day when i deleted my blog... Just by mistake I have deleted my Blog :( just couple of mins ago...

vimoh: Announcing FailCamp http://is.gd/4r29

shimo_ochiai: you've gotta love India: http://www.barcamp.org/failcamp

digitalcandy : Failcamp? Love it! http://barcamp.org/failcamp

vijayanands: Failcamp. Failure is a valuable Teacher. An unconference to share those learnings. http://www.barcamp.org/failcamp

pavanlimo: FailCamp http://www.barcamp.org/failcamp Makes a lot of sense!.

jaskirat: Fail camp, sounds interesting! Check it out at - http://www.barcamp.org/failcamp

sudarmuthu: Just now registered for FailCamp. In case if you are wondering what is FailCamp then read http://barcamp.org/failcamp

Tagline

The tagline that finally made the cut is 'Learn. Share. Succeed'

The other taglines suggested were:

Because Failure Teaches us the Best Lessons (too long)

You can't fail with failure - Avinash

We Fail to Learn - Sylvian Patrick

Coz failure is a step closer to success or Are You Sure or Learn from their(or others's) Mistakes- Ankit

That was a stepping stone. -Mayank

My reputation grows with every failure. - George Bernard Shaw (Mayank)

success from learning failures- arun balaji

"Its never late for what you might've been"

Laugh your way to success - (Suresh Sambandam)

ABORT, if you have to, RETRY and you may not FAIL (next time)!

Famous Quotes

Oscar Wilde: "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Samuel Smiles : "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success."

Thomas Alva Edison: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Henry Ford: "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely."

Benjamin Disraeli : "All my successes have been built on my failures."

Robert Schuller : "Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

Michael Jordan : "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

Havelock Ellis: "It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success."

Anthony Robbins: "There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."